The Other Journal has just posted my interview with James Davison Hunter about his important new book, To Change the World. It was conducted as an e-interview, so it’s not quite as chatty as a live conversation, but I think it invites Hunter to clarify some key points, and articulate some new ones. This is…
My home institution has posted a little Q & A about my two new books, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy and Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences, co-edited with Amos Yong. Check it out in order to see what has to be college’s dorkiest file photo of me…
While, in my last post, I was praising David Foster Wallace’s writing and voice–a “formal” praise–he is (was, sadly) also stunningly brilliant, even prescient. For example, consider just one of the essays in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, “E UNIBAS PLURAM: Television and U.S. Fiction,” which is something of a metacommentary on…
The book from my summer reading that probably most affected me was David Lipsky’s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. While Lipsky’s voice is a bit irritating, and while the book feels like a sort of theft on Lipsky’s part, the transcript of a 5-day of…
The Eerdmans Bookstore here in Grand Rapids will be hosting an evening event to celebrate the publication of Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy: “On the Very Idea of a Pentecostal Philosophy” 7:00pm, Eerdmans Bookstore, 2140 Oak Industrial Drive NE, Grand Rapids, MI Q &A, refreshments and book signing to follow. Hope to…
Keith DeRose has some alternative advice about going to grad school, contra the “Just-don’t-go” school. Worth a read. See my comments there.